Is your name famous?

[fabulouslyghetto]

my first name is a white girl name my last name slays though, sounds like a law office or something.

 

[mikey3000]

My last name looks like it belongs on an eye chart at the optometrist's office, but in scientific circles it is very well known.

 

[Laboyes]

First name, Adam...

Doesn't Adam translate to "man" in some languages (see Hebrew)?


I share my last name with some islands and a movie studio. It's actually relic from my German ancestry (and I think I probably mispronounce it).

My parents chose a first name that played up that German ancestry and changed the letters a little bit so that it sounded even more Germanic. It's extremely uncommon.

 

[nyctopgam]

my first name is a white girl name my last name slays though, sounds like a law office or something.

But you ARE famous Miss Walker.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I share my last name with a department store, a TV family, a criminal, a golfer, a pop star, and a famous duchess.

Neil subtly fades back . . .

 

[Alistair]

Actually I share a last name with a well known recent but not current British Politician

 

[Alistair]

I share my last name with a department store, a TV family, a criminal, a golfer, a pop star, and a famous duchess.

And a city in the US

 

[gsdx]

Neil subtly fades back . . .

D'oh!!!

 

[Rickrock]

No, it's not famous that I know of. There might have been someone with my last name in Jamestown, VA in the early 1600's, but he wasn't an Englishman and I don't know if he was related to me at all. Supposedly a town on the shores of Lake Erie was later named for one of his descendants, although the spelling (and pronunciation) was slaughtered.

 

[Aron9000]

That's our family's mountain. Bays Mountain near Kingsport Tennessee. You can see Kingsport in the left part of the picture.

 

[Kyanimal]

My surname is very well known. There are structures, buildings and bridges, even defensive castle styles, described by it, especially in the UK. It translates as "Warden" or "Guardian". There are towns that bear it's name, in varying forms, "Mills", "Cove", "Harbor", etc., here in the U.S., and elsewhere.

Supposedly, one of my ancestors held the thrown of Scotland, briefly, before he was "deposed" in the same manner he'd dispatched his predecessor.

Through ancestral research, the first to arrive in what would become the U.S. of A., was a supposed, likely politically defined, thief, deported to The Colonies, from Bath, England.

Given the times, that he was "merely" deported, instead of jailed, or executed, speaks to the connections he must have had.

There have also been family members that played pivotal roles in the U.S. Colonies, in the Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, on both sides.

 

[gsdx]

Supposedly, one of my ancestors held the thrown of Scotland, briefly

I could point out your 'oopsie', but I won't.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

My full name can be used as first names. And they are all very common names, now and through history.

 

[gsdx]

The initials of my roommate's full name are also his first name. (i.e. Sam Andrew Martin)

 

[Alistair]

My surname is very well known. There are structures, buildings and bridges, even defensive castle styles, described by it, especially in the UK. It translates as "Warden" or "Guardian". There are towns that bear it's name, in varying forms, "Mills", "Cove", "Harbor", etc., here in the U.S., and elsewhere.

Supposedly, one of my ancestors held the thrown of Scotland, briefly, before he was "deposed" in the same manner he'd dispatched his predecessor.

Through ancestral research, the first to arrive in what would become the U.S. of A., was a supposed, likely politically defined, thief, deported to The Colonies, from Bath, England.

Given the times, that he was "merely" deported, instead of jailed, or executed, speaks to the connections he must have had.

There have also been family members that played pivotal roles in the U.S. Colonies, in the Revolutionary, and Civil Wars, on both sides.

That's awesome!

 

[Alistair]

Shit, I just realized my name is something that you probably use every day

 

[Charon]

Shit, I just realized my name is something that you probably use every day

So it's Dick?